Just a PSA for all the other major publishers: You can’t make a GTA 6. Don’t have any meetings about it. Don’t put together any pitch decks. Don’t preemptively doom your workforce and the industry any further than you already have. Leave it alone.

It’s eat or be eaten when Metroid Ravenous, the latest game in the 2D Metroid series, arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 Jan 28! #NintendoDirect

The decision to let Samus keep her Metroid powers after the ending of Dread might be the coolest thing the series has ever done

Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror]@nintendoamericax.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s eat or be eaten when Metroid Ravenous, the latest game in the 2D Metroid series, arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 Jan 28! #NintendoDirect

Tim Sweeney

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Alt: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect

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Watch out for his SUPER-ULTRA-MEGA-MOVE! ⚡️

Every "corporate execs are assholes" satire ever written could not possibly compare to the level of assholery on display here. Jesus Christ.

Mitch Dyer@mitchyd.bsky.social · last mo.

this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right

I used to be confused watching Americans refuse to stick up for themselves or even allow OTHERS to advocate for things like workers rights (because doing so is Woke Commie Shit America Perfect Fuck You), but it clicked when I found out they make you pledge allegiance to the flag every day as a kid.

This really hits. My current project just announced "oops, project ends next month, yall better make job plans!!!" after A YEAR of the team asking "hey when is our release date?" Simultaneously realizing I'm blessed to have 1 month+, but still pissed at the detachedness of our managers.

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · 2mo ago

Filed away my last pass on tomorrows LTPF newsletter article, which given that it's the 1st Monday of the month is a paid-members "Ask Rami" article. Really happy that I'm writing these again, because it means I receive great questions like these, ended up writing 3,000 words in response.

Just to be clear on this article, the position I took isn't "developers need to be more brave" but "funding needs to be more brave". Developers make all the cool stuff, just because they want to - the funding side hits it with market research and fear and growth targets and shareholders.

GamesRadar+@gamesradarplus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We need games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Balatro, and Peak as a cure for the "fear" in the industry, say experts www.gamesradar.com/games/we-nee...

That said: Asha Sharma IS currently playing a bullshit PR game where she’s really just saying hollow things people want to hear in order to attempt to rebrand, so it’s possible they will hold onto discs for a while solely for that? But I doubt it, and if they do it won’t last long.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Update: A Ubisoft Barcelona employee has reached out to Game Informer to explain that Ubisoft is offering a "very bad offer that goes below any reasonable standard" in negotiations amidst an employee strike at the studio held to protest proposed layoffs. gameinformer.com/2026/07/15/a...

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced developer Ubisoft Barcelona has begun a strike to protest planned layoffs at the studio, just days after the remake's successful launch. gameinformer.com/2026/07/14/a...

Glad they updated this article title to be way more passive-aggressive

Game Informer@gameinformer.com · 2mo ago

ICYMI: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been named an advisor to the U.S. Federal Reserve Task Force for Productivity and Jobs, the same week Xbox announced it was laying off more than 3000 employees. gameinformer.com/2026/07/09/x...

In my opinion, any CEO that deems it necessary to lay off this many people is admitting that they so woefully mismanaged their company and caused harm to their workforce. I think that warrants jail time, and I'm not remotely joking.

I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.

Telling Tim to STFU is getting a lot of mileage lately.

This is horrifying and so important. Israel's continued massacres, child murder, genocide, forced starvation, concentration camps, targeted and structured destruction of life, and ethnic cleansing continues. It's easy to not see the full scale of this unparalleled evil. archivegenocide.com

we were discussing where the cost savings of AI and physical media production go when they’re not being passed on to the consumer

I'm happy to announce to game developers worldwide that almost every single one of us can now officially claim that at least one of our games did better numbers than the "Great American State Fair", and also that we did better at not shipping greybox assets for our setpieces.

With the shutting down of Concord and EOL for Destiny & the complete gutting of live-service stalwart Bungie, Sony announces a new company strategy focused on -wait sorry let me re-read I must've gotten it wrong... no that's what it says- yeah they're still trying to build a new not-Destiny y'all

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

If I had a bigger following a poll I would very much like to do would be which is more tense, the Interstellar docking scene vs the Project Hail Mary fishing scene Because I finally saw the latter and damn

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

it's cool that there was a huge recession in 2007 followed by a global pandemic in 2020, houses have more than doubled in price in the last 25 years and these guys are like, 'what if it was the iphone, or marvel movies'

Counterpoint: I already know how to use GIMP proficiently and not Photoshop, because GIMP is free and Photoshop costs $300 a year and is choked with AI features now.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

GIMP is objectively unintuitive and also can’t parse text layers of PSDs properly, it’s designed by FOSS people that have never created tools for professionals. Telling someone to use it for their job is like saying you can make a feature on iMovie. Technically true but not serious.

Turns out if you don't fire all your employees at the end of every fiscal year, your company functions better. This novel knowledge will hopefully make its way to other game companies soon.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What's the secret to Final Fantasy VII Revelation only taking three years to make? A consistent vision and retaining 95% of their staff. I spoke to director Naoki Hamaguchi about Revelation's development, what he's doing next (no more remakes!), and much more. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

We're doing amazing and just shipped a bunch of hits? Layoffs. We're doing badly and we need change? Also layoffs. Our new CEO is putting us on track and we're gonna do great? Believe it or not, also layoffs.

"it didn't save us any time or money, but it did get us in trouble with the public. so you can see how this is the future."

I feel so bad for all the devs behind these games having their work ruined forever by that stupid hat

Game Informer@gameinformer.com · 4mo ago

ICYMI: Empulse is a 6v6 Titanfall 2-like FPS from the Splitgate devs. gameinformer.com/2026/06/02/e...